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January 16 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910: Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean is born in Lucas, AR. Dean will make his debut in 1930 with the St. Louis Cardinals and will win 150 games over a 12-year career with the Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Browns.

1913: The Chicago White Sox purchased Davy Jones from the Detroit Tigers for $2,500.

1952: The U.S. Standardization Board clears the way for Stan Musial to get a salary increase to $85,000. Prior to this relaxation of the rules, there was a wage freeze in effect due to the Korean War. Under the new rules, a team is free to raise individual salaries, as long as they do not exceed a complicated formula, based on total team salaries for any one year, from 1946 to 1950, plus 10 percent.

1964: American League owners vote down Charlie Finley's proposed move of the Kansas City Athletics to Louisville, Kentucky. The owners, who vote 9-1 against the proposal, also tell Finley to sign a lease with Kansas City or surrender the franchise.

1970: Gold Glove outfielder Curt Flood files a lawsuit challenging the reserve clause, which binds major league players to teams perpetually. Flood had been traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies on October 7, 1969, but has refused to report to the Phillies. Flood contends that the reserve clause violates antitrust laws. He will lose the suit but the judge will suggest changes to the reserve system, opening the door for salary arbitration and free agency.
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1974: The Baseball Writers Association of America elects former New York Yankees teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to the Hall of Fame. Mantle becomes only the seventh player to make it in his first try. His 536 home runs with the Yankees rank second only to Babe Ruth, and he played in more games (2,401) than any other pinstriper, including Lou Gehrig. Ford was arguably the greatest Yankees pitcher of all time, retiring with more wins (236), innings pitched (3,171), strikeouts (1,956), and shutouts (45) than anyone in club history.
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1986: The Detroit Tigers released Marty Castillo.
1986: The Detroit Tigers traded Chris Pittaro and Alejandro Sanchez to the Minnesota Twins for Dave Engle.

1989: The Detroit Tigers signed Frank Williams as a free agent.

1996: Major League Baseball's executive council approves a history-making first: interleague play for the 1997 season. The Players' Association will also give its approval, enabling geographic rivals like New York's Mets and Yankees, Chicago's Cubs and White Sox, and Los Angeles' Angels and Dodgers to play each other during the regular season.

2001: Outfielders Dave Winfield and Kirby Puckett are elected to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Scott Servais as a free agent.

2003: The Hall of Fame announces that Gary Carter will become the first player to wear a Montreal Expos cap on his plaque when he is inducted next July at Cooperstown. Although the former Montreal catcher had expressed his desire to go in with a Mets logo, for whom he won a Championship in 1986, the Hall of Fame makes the final decision.

2003: The owners establish the minimum age of 14 for bat boys. The change from not having any age requirement is prompted by a near collision at home plate during Game 5 of last year's World Series involving 4-year old bat boy Darren Baker, the son of Giants manager Dusty Baker.

2003: Trying to restore a competitive edge to the All-Star Game, the owners unanimously approve that the winning league of the Mid-Summer classic will have home-field advantage during the World Series. Approval is needed by the players to change the current rotation between the two leagues, which was put in place since the inception of the World Series in 1903.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Tom Evans as a free agent.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Guillermo Moscoso as an amateur free agent.

2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Alexis Gomez as a free agent.
2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Don Kelly as a free agent.
2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Miller as a free agent.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Don Kelly as a free agent.

2014: At their quarterly meeting, MLB owners agree to the proposed expansion of instant replay; as the Players Association and Umpires Association have also agreed to the changes, they will be effective at the start of this season.
A manager will be able to challenge up to two decisions per game, and the umpiring crew can decide on its own to review a call from the 7th inning on. Almost all calls will be subject to review, except for balls and strikes, obstruction and interference.

2020: Carlos Beltran becomes the third manager to lose his job as a result of the sign-stealing scandal linked to the 2017 Astros. He is dismissed by the Mets after being the only player named in the investigation report made public by the Commissioner's office. His firing follows that of A.J. Hinch and Alex Cora a few days earlier. Having been named to the position after the 2019 season, he never had an opportunity to actually manage a game.

2021: The Detroit Tigers signed Andrew Moore as a free agent.
2021: The Detroit Tigers signed Robbie Ross as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

Brad Kocher 1912.

Johnny Watson 1930.

Marty Castillo 1981-1985.

Warwick Saupold 2016-2018.

Garrett Hill Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Garrett Hill 2022-2023.

Tigers players who passed away:

Fred Payne 1906-1908.

Claude Rossman 1907-1909.

Clay Perry 1908.

Baby Doll Jacobson 1915.

Liz Funk 1930.

Willie Smith 1963.

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Tigers have signed the following international amateur free agents:
C Fabian Dorta (Venezuela)
INF Jhonger Ochoa (Venezuela)
INF Enny Rodriguez (Venezuela)
RHP Sheroky Rodriguez (Venezuela)
OF Angel Roso (Venezuela)
 
Game times for Detroit Tigers’ 2025 Grapefruit League schedule released.
Here’s what is on the slate in Florida during spring training for the Detroit Tigers, from Feb. 22 to March 23.
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January 17 in Tigers and mlb history:

1870: Hall of Famer Jimmy Collins was born this day in Niagra Falls, NY.
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1885: The New York Clipper reports that Paul Hines has canceled his Washington Monument ball-drop exhibition. "The experiment of trying to catch a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument has proved to be a failure. The ball reaches the ground with such great speed that it indents the ground almost as much as a heavy cannon ball would dropped from a proportionate height. The fact is that, independently of the difficulty of judging the ball falling from such a height, the speed is too great to allow of any one holding it when it nears the ground."

1915: According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the American League hometown franchise will now be known as the Indians replacing the nickname the Naps - a change due to Napoleon Lajoie, the player-manager for whom the team is presently named, leaving for the Philadelphia Athletics. Team owner Charles W. Somers asked the city's baseball writers, who in turn asked their readers for suggestions. A false rumor claims that the origin of the name was former Cleveland Spiders outfielder, Chief Sockalexis.

1919: The Detroit Tigers traded Ossie Vitt to the Boston Red Sox for Eddie Ainsmith, Slim Love and Chick Shorten.

1934: National League MVP Carl Hubbell comes to contract terms with the New York Giants. Hubbell, who won league honors unanimously in 1933, will earn $18,000 for the upcoming season.

1939: The New York Yankees elect Ed Barrow as president. Barrow replaces Jacob Ruppert, who died four days earlier. Barrow will remain as the Yankees president until 1945, when the team is bought by Dan Topping and Del Webb.

1952: Detroit Tigers owner Walter Briggs dies at the age of 74. His son will succeed him in the presidency.
Tiger Stadium was named Briggs Stadium from 1938-1960.

1961: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Frank Bolling to the Milwaukee Braves for Dick Brown, Bill Bruton, Chuck Cottier and Terry Fox. The Detroit Tigers sent Neil Chrisley (January 17, 1961) to the Milwaukee Braves to complete the trade.

1970: The Sporting News names San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays as its "Player of the Decade" for the 1960s. Mays beats out the likes of Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Al Kaline, and Carl Yastrzemski in the voting.

1970: Major league teams select a record 357 players in the January phase of the annual free agent draft, including top pick Chris Chambliss, by Cleveland, and Chris Speier. Fred Lynn, drafted by the Yankees in the first round, will not sign.

1970: The Detroit Tigers drafted Mike Potter in the 3rd round of the 1970 amateur draft (January), but was not signed.

1992: The Detroit Tigers signed Jeff Kaiser as a free agent.

1997: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Grimsley as a free agent.

2008: Major League Baseball owners unanimously vote to extend commissioner Bud Selig's contract through the 2012 season. The contract extension will make Selig baseball's second-longest-serving commissioner, behind only Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The vote comes in a week when Selig has been criticized by the U.S. Congress for not cracking down hard enough on steroids.

2012: Tigers announce Victor Martinez suffered an ACL injury in his left knee and will likely miss the entire upcoming season. The Tigers will sign Prince Fielder in response.

2014: Tigers agree to one-year contract with reigning AL Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, avoiding arbitration.

2020: The Detroit Tigers traded Matt Hall to the Boston Red Sox for Jhon Nunez (minors).

Tigers players and managers birthdays:

Jay W. Porter 1955-1957.

Dick Brown 1961-1962.

Mayo Smith manager 1967-1970.

Jerry Turner 1982.

Mike Rabelo 2006-2007. Tigers Minor league coach 2011-2019.

Joe Jimenez 2017-2022.

Tigers players and executives who passed away:

Walter Briggs Tigers co-owner 1920-1935, owner 1935-1952.

John McHale 1943-1945, 1947-1948, Assistant GM 1949-1957, General Manager 1957-1959.

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In less than 1 month, pitchers and catchers will be reporting. The Tigers are expected to have significant changes to their rotation with many potential starters vying for 5 slots.
We know that Tarik Skubal, Alex Cobb and Reese Olson will get the nod, leaving 2 slots open. The starters with the best chances of earning the last 2 spots are:
Beau Brieske
Jackson Jobe
Kenta Maeda
Casey Mize
Keider Montero
Which one of these players do you believe has the smallest chance of making the starting rotation at the beginning of the season?

Which starting pitcher do you believe has the smallest chance of making the starting rotation at the start of the season?

1. Beau Brieske

2. Jackson Jobe

3. Kenta Maeda

4./ Casey Mize

5. Keider Montero

VOTE
 
Tigers News: Detroit signs catcher, former player joins Rockies, 2025 lawsuit.
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Tigers sign veteran MLB catcher who ended last year with Toledo.
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